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Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.”

Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Chesapeake Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds.

Agricultural drainage tile, a system used by farmers to increase crop yields, is a main contributor to excess nutrients in waterways.

Wall Lake trucker David Schultz, whose body was found earlier this year not far from where he disappeared months earlier, died from hypothermia related to acute methamphetamine intoxication, according to a death certificate.

An Indiana man, accused of posing as a woman to lure an Iowa City man to his death in 2021, received another delay in his murder trial. This is the tenth delay for Renard Winfield, charged with first-degree murder.

Known as the “Angel of the Village,” Mary Kay Novak McGrath died in February before a dream of a plaza in Czech Village in honor of her late parents could be brought to life. But a plaza and garden were dedicated in their memory Thursday.

The Urbana police chief claims in a lawsuit Urbana is violating Iowa law by allowing a city clerk, acting as the city administrator, to supervise him. The city clerk also wouldn’t approve his comp time and illegally altered his timesheets, the suit asserts.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department has arrested seven people as part of an operation targeting people who attempt to engage in sexual activities with minors, according to a news release from the department.